An issues-oriented campaign

March 21, 2008|Louis R. Sernoff, Delray Beach

Barack Obama's speech is not likely to gain him my vote in the general election if he wins the Democratic nomination. His views on many pressing issues are very conventionally liberal, and mine are equally conventionally conservative.

That said, I have followed his campaign with great interest. Having read his speech on the racial issues that have lately threatened the progress of his campaign, I am satisfied that he has the personal qualities that ought to be a prerequisite for the presidency.

Sen. John McCain, who spent his formative years in the military, the most integrated institution in our society, clearly has those qualities within him as well. The thought of an issues-oriented campaign between these two candidates puts a smile on my face in the midst of an uneasy time for our country.